First, a trailer…
The Browser: News & links to raise your eyebrows & furrow your brow. New headlines may be added as the day goes on. Stay tuned. 1.
Here’s BBC video of U2 on the roof a building in London playing that song about boots again.
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Jim Carrey has quite a year ahead of him. We already know that in Robert Zemeckis’s motion capture Christmas Carol he’ll be playing Scrooge and a variety of creepy characters. His dark comedy with Ewan McGregor, I Love You Philip Morris, is coming soon. And now… in an adaptation of the musical Damn Yankees, he’ll be playing the devil, tempting Jake Gyllenhaal toward misbehavior.
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I became a Berkeley Breathed fan during the early days of Bloom County, but I am an even bigger fan of his storybooks for children. So I’m happy to see that one of them is becoming a feature film: Mars Needs Moms. 4. More to come, most probably.